Sarbanes-Oxley Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Sarbanes-Oxley skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 121 151
Rank change year-on-year +4 +30 +41
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 8 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.45% 0.29% 0.38%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.33% 1.78% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 8
10th Percentile £635 £581 £378
25th Percentile £639 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £678 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.92% +9.09% -14.26%
75th Percentile £731 - £581
90th Percentile £743 £675 £626
Central London median daily rate £700 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -14.26%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of London

Sarbanes-Oxley falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 344 337 478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.41% 16.35% 15.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 207 359
10th Percentile £330 £363 £400
25th Percentile £415 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +2.56%
75th Percentile £706 £675 £700
90th Percentile £826 £750 £803
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £23.83 £16.60 -
25th Percentile £26.57 £17.50 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £20.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% - -
75th Percentile £56.75 £22.50 -
90th Percentile £75.95 £23.40 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £23.40 -
% change year-on-year +45.30% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Sarbanes-Oxley as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Sarbanes-Oxley.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Sarbanes-Oxley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley in the City of London over the 6 months to 8 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Sarbanes-Oxley.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Sarbanes-Oxley

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Workday HCM
2 1 (12.50%) SAP CO
2 1 (12.50%) SAP FI
2 1 (12.50%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) OCI
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Retail
4 1 (12.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Security Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Programme Director
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Architect
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Solution Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) PMO Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Risk Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) OAuth
1 3 (37.50%) OpenID
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle Fusion
1 3 (37.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
1 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (37.50%) Risk Assessment
1 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) ERP
2 2 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (25.00%) Key Management
2 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (12.50%) Change Control
3 1 (12.50%) Data Security
3 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Software Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
1 3 (37.50%) OCP
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle Certification
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) CISA
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (37.50%) NIST
3 1 (12.50%) HIPAA
3 1 (12.50%) PMO
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (37.50%) Workday
3 2 (25.00%) Adaptive Insights
4 1 (12.50%) SAP